Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:46:52 -0400 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Arthur Chance" <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: "Paul Procacci" <pprocacci@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: socat / ghostscript questions Message-ID: <05c982428fa6412209d78e432afab4a1.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <2ea846ea-65ad-e9ea-9400-2708271039f4@qeng-ho.org> References: <a57616c8b3cb377786621d3410355793.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <CAFbbPugodkPJm1mcGDuVO1kMVrhnWbwazA4vxrQnE0eijeLO3A@mail.gmail.com> <2ea846ea-65ad-e9ea-9400-2708271039f4@qeng-ho.org>
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On Tue, April 20, 2021 12:23, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 20/04/2021 17:17, Paul Procacci wrote:
>> The hang is most likely because an EOF doesn't get trasmitted over the wire.
>> Adding a timeout I believe should fix the problem.
>>
>> nc -w 1 [addr] [port] < filename.txt
>
> Better to use the -N flag.
>
> -N shutdown(2) the network socket after EOF on the input. Some
> servers require this to finish their work.
>
That worked for me. Thanks.
$ enscript -p - t2.txt | nc -N 192.168.216.41 9100
[ 1 page * 1 copy ] left in -
1 line was wrapped
$
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